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I wish app and web developers would be more respectful of user's style preferences and their system theme. Some designer living 1000 miles away in Silicon Valle
by dec0dedab0de 4y ago
I wish app and web developers would be more respectful of user's style preferences and their system theme. Some designer living 1000 miles away in Silicon Valley should not be able to simply dictate how my browser displays text or what color my application windows are.
Older web browsers used to let you override the colors for all websites as just a normal setting. I think I'm specifically remembering Netscape 3, but it's been a while. I used to override the colors, and disable images/js from like 96-99, and everything worked fine. I still miss that version of the web
- int_19h 4y agoThe ability for users to override styling was one of the original design goals of CSS; https://www.w3.org/TR/REC-CSS1/#abstract https://www.w3.org/TR/REC-CSS1/#abstract: "One of the fundamental features of CSS is that style sheets cascade; authors can attach a preferred style sheet, while the reader may have a personal style sheet to adjust for human or technological handicaps."
- david2ndaccount 4y agoSafari still supports this. Preferences -> Advanced -> Style sheet. I use it to adjust things on some websites. As far as I know Chrome does not support it. Firefox probably supports it, but their preferences UI has always been terrible so I can’t figure out where it would be.
- dec0dedab0de 4y agoFirefox probably supports it, but their preferences UI has always been terrible so I can’t figure out where it would be. I remember it being nicer about 20 years ago, I think it started getting gradually worse about the same time the release numbers started increasing like crazy.
- cmeacham98 4y agoFirefox still does: Settings -> General -> Colors. You can change the default color for text/background/links, and set it to always override the website's styling if you want.